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" The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers. "

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" The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access. "

" We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way. "

" Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'? "

" Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. "

" There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. "

" If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water. "

" Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. "

" Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data. "

" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "

" I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. "

" If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad. "

" Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. "

" You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are. "

" I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work. "

" I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life. "

" There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets. "

" Love is great, but not as a password. "

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" In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate. "

" It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur. "

" Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired. "

" Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop. "

" In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world. "

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" Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not. "

" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "

" In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one. "

" WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone. "